News, Awards, Reviews
Pushcart Prize nominations:
“Mourning The Rag-Man” — nominated by Byline
“The Restaurant Life” — nominated by The Worcester Review
“To Whomever It May Concern At The National Geographic”
— nominated by Lily
Million Writers Award Shortlist:
“Getaway” —nominated by VerbSap
“The Home Front” —nominated by Eclectica.
Best of the Net:
“The Home Front” —nominated by Eclectica for Sundress Publications Best of the Net
Spotlight Author, Eclectica Magazine
“The Home Front”
Tom Dooley, Eclectica Editor:
Our Spotlight Author is fiction writer, ad-man, and newspaper reporter Paul Silverman, whose story, “The Home Front” takes us back to the night the Korean War officially ended, when the proprietor, employees, and patrons of an all-night deli encounter a drunken, enraged soldier bent on destruction. It’s a dense and kinetic tale, beautifully told.
Bookmunch review:
Oh yeah, Oh yeah. Paul Silverman’s “The Entrepeneur of Room 303.” I read that whole story to my wife. That kinda thing counts as romance where I live.
Minus The Spine review:
Top billing went to Paul Silverman’s Big Country which reminded me of a cross between an Annie Proulx and Hemingway story; i.e., lots of tight dialogue and a salt-of-the-earth (read: redneck) vibe.
Matt di Gangi, Editor, Thieves Jargon:
Paul Silverman is in that issue, and to be honest, I’ll read pretty much anything that he writes.
Duck Adventure:
I long for the freedom to write stories that are about nothing and everything. That being said, Hobart has published Paul Silverman’s Big Country, which grew on me quick.
Darby Larson Review:
The desire to be famous, to be acknowledge by people, by an audience he’ll never connect with drives our hero maddeningly from newsstand to newsstand to verify his potential listhood, all wonderfully juxtaposed with the disconnection of his closest friends, no phone messages, no email...
Matt Bell, Smokelong Quarterly, on “Lefky”:
The voice of this story is what initially attracted me to it and what sticks with me now, reading it again. Also, it’s the story of losing a father told through the yearning of a parrot, an intriguing twist.
Benjamin Chambers’ personal best:
The founding editor of The King’s English chooses “The Home Front” as one of the ten best online stories of 2007.
Justin Powers reviewing Rammed in Eclectica:
This story blew me away. The voice has an authority that looks down upon George but also sympathizes with him. The author really takes his time with fully telling characters and each event…and the final scene where he has his moment of enlightenment is the perfect ending.